Galt suspect arrested after all-night standoff

GALT - A man accused of killing a Sacramento County animal control officer was arrested at his foreclosed Galt home early Thursday after an all-night standoff with police, officials reported.

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GALT - A man accused of killing a Sacramento County animal control officer was arrested at his foreclosed Galt home early Thursday after an all-night standoff with police, officials reported.

Joseph Corey, 65, was taken into custody at 5 a.m. Thursday after barricading himself for nearly 15 hours in a home in the 600 block of First Street, said Sgt. Jason Ramos, a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

The deceased animal control officer was identified by the Sacramento County coroner as Roy Marcum, 45, of Elk Grove.

Two other men at the home with Marcum were injured in the attack, according to the Galt Police Department.

Corey had been evicted from the home on Tuesday afternoon, a situation in which locks were changed and authorities said Corey was cooperative.

At that time, Corey said he couldn't take care of his cats and dogs.

The animals became the responsibility of the bank, which called on animal control to remove the pets.

When Marcum and a bank representative arrived at the home at noon Wednesday with a locksmith, there was a verbal exchange among the three men on the outside of the home and Corey on the inside, police said.

Corey shot through the front door with a shotgun, officers said.

Marcum was hit in the chest. Both the bank representative and the locksmith were injured by the blast and were treated by medics at the scene, police said.